MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Awesome Thunderstorms

Yes you were very close to that lightning strike and there was either static electricity or some kind of magnetic field when it struck. I'm too lazy to look it up and see which one. '

I had a similar experience once. I had just got my young girls to bed and was on the computer. It was dead silent in the house with the exception of the distant thunder, when all of the sudden I felt some kind of charge in the air (I'm inside remember), a bright flash and BOOM! That lightning had to of struck damned close! Right after it hit, several of the girls toys started talking, playing music, etc. It was like something from a movie except the toys did not come after me and stopped in a few seconds. I asked one of the electrical engineers at work about it the next day and he said the lightning caused the ICs in the toys to reset causing them to activate (or something like that). It was caused by the static or magnetic field (cannot remember which though).